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From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Rumors...AMAX
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Date: 9 Feb 90 23:23:39 GMT
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[note about how the AMAX people could have distributed ROM images instead
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In article <8244@shlump.nac.dec.com> (Steve Owen) writes:
>Yea, It really makes you wonder who the real pirates are, huh?  If these
>roms don't need to be bought, but just loaded into the amiga via software,
>then why the hell did the make us buy them?  

Steve, going off half cocked like this is bad for your sinuses. Think
about what you just said for a moment. Paraphrased (to make the problem
more obvious) you said "If AMAX could duplicate the Apple ROMs why did
they make us buy them?" And the answer is quite simple, if they duplicated
them then Apple could sue them and put them out of business for copyright
infringement. They did this with Franklin Computer's use of the Apple II
ROMs. The only legal way to get Mac ROMs is to buy them from Apple (or
to buy them from someone who bought them from Apple etc). THAT is why
they make you buy them. Understand ?


--Chuck McManis
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